As 2012 has come to an end, we are taking a look back at some of our favorite posts of the year by our guest editors.
A lot has changed since Clinic first shell-shocked the scene in the late ’90s with a waxen trio of blitzkrieg EPs, and the many rave reviews and rarefied Radiohead comparisons that followed its earliest albums, 2000’s Internal Wrangler and 2002’s Walking With Thee. Born during those final twilight hours of the music industry’s money-minting heyday, Clinic has defiantly survived the many upheavals and unthinking revolutions that surround the working band in the internet age. Free Reign (Domino) is Clinic’s seventh album, as well as the most focused and singular of the band’s career to date. Frontman Ade Blackburn will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new Clinic feature.
Blackburn: The Carry On series of films are an excellent place to start exploring the British psyche. Each film covers sexual repression, xenophobia and a saucy juvenile humor that’s severely dated yet fascinating. Mainly, it’s a pretty accurate account of ’70s Britain. Carry On Abroad shows you what happens when the British come up against “foreigners” on holiday in Spain. Sid James puts in a masterful performance as the beleaguered “ells bells” hotel manager.
Video after the jump.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0phJGVh1mM0
